break statement
From Cppreference
Causes the enclosing for, while or do-while loop or [[cpp/language/switch| switch statement} to terminate.
Used when it is otherwise awkward to terminate the loop using the condition expression and conditional statements.
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Syntax
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Explanation
After this statement the control is transferred to the statement following the enclosing loop.
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Example
#include <iostream> int main() { int i = 2; switch (i) { case 1: std::cout << "1"; case 2: std::cout << "2"; //execution starts at this case label case 3: std::cout << "3"; case 4: case 5: std::cout << "45"; break; //execution of subsequent statements is terminated case 6: std::cout << "6"; } std::cout << '\n'; for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++) { for (int k = 0; k < 5; k++) { //only this loop is affected by break if (k == 2) break; std::cout << j << k << " "; }
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